Scott,

Nicely done.  You provided the context I just talked about.

Herb

From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Scott Woods
Sent: 2009-03-05 07:37
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: incorrect future perfect?

Cynthia,

A context:
Speaker A: I will bring in my submission to the project tomorrow morning.
Speaker B: We will have finished the project tomorrow.  Your submission would be too late.  Bring it in by 4 o'clock this afternoon if you want it to be included.
This seems to work well.  The future perfect seems useful and correct here.
Scott Woods

--- On Wed, 3/4/09, Cynthia Baird <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

From: Cynthia Baird <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: incorrect future perfect?
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 7:48 PM
Would anyone care to comment on this sentence?  It came up in a literacy textbook I have to use, and a student had real difficulty with accepting this as a logical sentence.  I gave him my explanation about why I thought the sentence was problematic, but I would like to hear from some of you to know if I was right or wrong in my assessment of the sentence.

The sentence read as follows:

We will have finished the project tomorrow.

I know the sentence contains a future perfect, and I risk Brad's comments, but so be it.


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